.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 266 127
Rank change year-on-year -62 -139 +31
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 417 432 1,872
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.53% 1.16% 2.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.38% 5.67% 11.07%
Number of salaries quoted 383 376 1,779
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,310 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,919 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% +7.69% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.70%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,758 7,615 16,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.90% 20.37% 20.40%
Number of salaries quoted 5,870 5,860 14,094
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,274 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +10.46% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,544
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 24 April 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 24 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -58 118 £55,000 -4.35% 41
London -60 79 £80,000 - 55
South East -42 66 £60,000 +14.29% 52
North West -28 65 £55,000 -8.33% 24
Midlands -26 63 £65,000 +23.81% 20
East Midlands -27 47 £65,000 +23.81% 9
South West -35 46 £53,750 -20.37% 16
East of England -25 37 £90,000 +71.43% 26
North East -22 28 £65,000 +44.44% 9
Yorkshire -76 25 £48,750 -18.75% 8
West Midlands -35 16 £65,000 +11.59% 11
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (4.32%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.68%) IIS
3 2 (0.48%) CMS
4 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Magento
2 1 (0.24%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 250 (59.95%) Azure
2 85 (20.38%) AWS
3 66 (15.83%) Azure DevOps
4 47 (11.27%) Serverless
5 46 (11.03%) SaaS
6 40 (9.59%) Power Platform
7 38 (9.11%) Azure Logic Apps
8 35 (8.39%) GitHub
9 23 (5.52%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (4.80%) Azure Data Factory
10 20 (4.80%) Power Automate
10 20 (4.80%) PowerApps
11 19 (4.56%) Azure Functions
11 19 (4.56%) Azure Service Bus
12 18 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
13 17 (4.08%) Azure Monitor
14 16 (3.84%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 16 (3.84%) OneDrive
15 15 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
16 14 (3.36%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.72%) Internet
2 2 (0.48%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.24%) AMQP
3 1 (0.24%) HTTP
3 1 (0.24%) Modbus
3 1 (0.24%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (37.41%) SQL Server
2 58 (13.91%) Azure SQL Database
3 35 (8.39%) Power BI
4 31 (7.43%) NoSQL
5 26 (6.24%) MongoDB
6 20 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (3.12%) DynamoDB
8 12 (2.88%) MySQL
9 10 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (1.92%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.20%) Redis
12 2 (0.48%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.24%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.24%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
13 1 (0.24%) NonStop SQL
13 1 (0.24%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 49 (11.75%) Git
2 8 (1.92%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.44%) JIRA
3 6 (1.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (0.96%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.72%) NUnit
5 3 (0.72%) Vite
6 2 (0.48%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.48%) MSTest
6 2 (0.48%) webpack
7 1 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.24%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.24%) Selenium
7 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 61 (14.63%) Finance
2 49 (11.75%) Social Skills
3 15 (3.60%) Games
4 12 (2.88%) Banking
4 12 (2.88%) Law
5 9 (2.16%) Public Sector
6 8 (1.92%) Automotive
6 8 (1.92%) Front Office
6 8 (1.92%) Retail
7 6 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.20%) Legal
9 4 (0.96%) Advertising
9 4 (0.96%) Marketing
10 3 (0.72%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.48%) Local Government
11 2 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.48%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.24%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.24%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 299 (71.70%) Developer
2 135 (32.37%) .NET Developer
3 120 (28.78%) Senior
4 107 (25.66%) Software Developer
5 76 (18.23%) Senior Developer
6 72 (17.27%) C# Developer
7 55 (13.19%) Lead
8 49 (11.75%) C# .NET Developer
8 49 (11.75%) Full-Stack Developer
8 49 (11.75%) Software Engineer
9 30 (7.19%) Lead Developer
10 28 (6.71%) Senior Software Engineer
11 27 (6.47%) Senior Software Developer
12 26 (6.24%) .NET Software Engineer
13 25 (6.00%) .NET Software Developer
14 23 (5.52%) Applications Developer
15 22 (5.28%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
16 21 (5.04%) Azure Developer
16 21 (5.04%) Azure Engineer
17 20 (4.80%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 417 (100.00%) .NET
2 134 (32.13%) ASP.NET
3 88 (21.10%) .NET Framework
4 87 (20.86%) React
5 61 (14.63%) RESTful
6 60 (14.39%) HTML
7 58 (13.91%) Blazor
8 57 (13.67%) CSS
9 55 (13.19%) ASP.NET Core
9 55 (13.19%) Entity Framework
10 44 (10.55%) AngularJS
11 42 (10.07%) Vue
12 29 (6.95%) REST
13 28 (6.71%) Node.js
14 25 (6.00%) ASP.NET MVC
15 23 (5.52%) ASP.NET Web API
16 21 (5.04%) JSON
17 18 (4.32%) Microsoft Graph
18 16 (3.84%) HTML5 Canvas
18 16 (3.84%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.87%) Cloud Native
2 18 (4.32%) Greenfield Project
3 17 (4.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 12 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (2.88%) Product Ownership
5 11 (2.64%) Sports Betting
6 9 (2.16%) Hedge funds
6 9 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.44%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.44%) Low-Code
8 5 (1.20%) Algorithms
9 4 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (0.96%) Social Network
10 3 (0.72%) Digital TV
10 3 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.72%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.48%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.48%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.12%) VMS
2 7 (1.68%) Windows
3 5 (1.20%) Linux
4 1 (0.24%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (33.09%) Full-Stack Development
2 133 (31.89%) Agile
3 112 (26.86%) CI/CD
4 109 (26.14%) Software Engineering
5 99 (23.74%) DevOps
6 72 (17.27%) Microservices
7 62 (14.87%) MVC
8 60 (14.39%) Containerisation
9 50 (11.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 48 (11.51%) SDLC
11 37 (8.87%) Business Intelligence
11 37 (8.87%) Collaborative Culture
12 35 (8.39%) Clean Code
12 35 (8.39%) Mentoring
13 33 (7.91%) OO
14 32 (7.67%) Analytics
15 31 (7.43%) Collaborative Working
15 31 (7.43%) Problem-Solving
15 31 (7.43%) SOLID
15 31 (7.43%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 366 (87.77%) C#
2 181 (43.41%) SQL
3 122 (29.26%) JavaScript
4 66 (15.83%) TypeScript
5 37 (8.87%) PowerShell
6 18 (4.32%) Python
7 12 (2.88%) Kusto Query Language
8 11 (2.64%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.44%) Bash
9 6 (1.44%) Java
10 4 (0.96%) Bicep
11 3 (0.72%) PHP
12 2 (0.48%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.24%) C++
13 1 (0.24%) F#
Qualifications
1 29 (6.95%) Degree
2 12 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (2.64%) AWS Certification
3 11 (2.64%) AWS Certified Developer
4 10 (2.40%) Security Cleared
5 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (1.20%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.96%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.48%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.60%) QA
2 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.48%) GDPR
2 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.48%) ITGC
2 2 (0.48%) SLA
3 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 82 (19.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 65 (15.59%) Kubernetes
2 32 (7.67%) Terraform
3 2 (0.48%) Ansible
Vendors
1 131 (31.41%) Microsoft
2 16 (3.84%) Adobe
3 7 (1.68%) Google
4 5 (1.20%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (0.96%) Facebook
5 4 (0.96%) Workday
6 2 (0.48%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (0.48%) Foundry
6 2 (0.48%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.24%) Apple
7 1 (0.24%) Databricks
7 1 (0.24%) IBM
7 1 (0.24%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle
7 1 (0.24%) Sony
7 1 (0.24%) WooCommerce
7 1 (0.24%) Yahoo!
7 1 (0.24%) YouTube